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The Texas Mesquiter, Friday, November 8, 1918 |
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In the Tuesday casualty list, as published in the afternoon daily papers of that date, appeared the name of Dan E. Nash, as having been killed in action in France. Dan Nash is the son of P. C. Nash, formerly of Mesquite, but now of Edna, Jackson county. Dan Nash lived here when he was younger, and in fact had been here part of the time the last few years, and our information is that he was here at the time he was called into the service, though his home was given as Edna, Texas. Sgt. Daniel E. Rugel wrote about two weeks ago that Dan Nash was reported killed in action, but no confirmation of this had been received here up to the time his name appeared in the casualty list. P. C. Nash, his father, was here recently, and he had not heard anything about it. Not knowing whether Daniel Rugel's information was correct or not, and not desiring to cause Mr. Nash any alarm, we asked him if his son, Dan, had ever been wounded, and he said that he had not so far as he knew.
The Texas Mesquiter, Friday, November 29, 1918 |
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Washington, Feb. 11--Three hundred and twenty-four Texas Gold Star Mothers and widows have been listed by the War Department as eligible to make the visit to European cemeteries at the expense of the Federal Government. Seventy-nine indicated a desire to go this year and forty-nine that they would go before 1933. Texas mothers and widows have told the War Department that they did not care to make the trip. Do decision has been received from thirty-five. The following make public are listed from Dallas County:...Mrs. Emma Nash, Grand Prairie... Alll have signified their desire to make the pilgrimage with the exception of Mrs. Everett, Mrs. Roberson and Mrs. Smith. The War Department has received no response from Mrs. Rena Brown. Mrs. Emma Nash formerly lived in Grand Prairie but for the past year has been making her home in Shamrock. Her son Dan Nash, served with the American Expeditionary Forces and was killed in notion in France a short time before the Armistice was signed.
Grand Prairie Daily News, February 14, 1930 |
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Mrs. P. C. Nash left Dallas Sunday afternoon for New York City, where she will be one of a large party of Gold Star Mothers of this nation, who will visit the grave of her son, who died in the defense of his country and whose body lies on foreign soil. Mrs. Nash was one of five mothers from Dallas county who will make the trip. The party left Dallas in a special car in which they will make the trip via St. Louis to New York. The party of some eight hundred will sail from New York Thursday. The party will be gone about six weeks, two weeks of which time will be spent in France. The expenses of this trip is borne, by the Government and the ladies will have every possible attention including physician and nurses as well as guards throughout the trip. Mrs. Nash will visit the grave of her son, Dan Nash, who died from the effects of a gas attack while at the front. Dan joined the army in 1917 at Dallas and went to Camp Travis where he trained as a machine gunner. One June 19, 1918 his company broke camp and started for France. He had only been in the fighting area but a few days until he went to the front. Early in October he was in three hard fights. On the 5th of October he with twenty-six members of his company retired to a dugout for a rest when the Germans made a gas attack and one of the bombs landed in the hole in which the boys were resting. They were immediately taken to hospitals where, with one exception the boys passed away. Only one member of the party survived to return to the United States and he survived only a few years. Dan Nash died on the 10th day of October and was buried in the U. S. Cemetery.
Grand Prairie Daily News, Grand Prairie, Texas, July 17, 1931 |
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Howard Nash came in Saturday afternoon and ordered the Mesquiter sent to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Nash, formerly of Mesquite but now residing at Grand Prairie. Howard had just received a postcard from his mother, sent from France where she had gone with other Gold Star mothers, to visit the grave of her son, Dan Nash, who was killed in action in the World War, on October 4, 1918, just a month and 7 days before hostilities ceased with the signing of the Armistice. There were four other Dallas County Gold Star mothers making this trip. They left Dallas on July 12, and were expected to reach home the latter part of the week.
The Texas Mesquiter, Mesquite, Texas, Friday, August 14, 1931 |
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Funeral services for Howard Nash 36 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Nash of this city were held Thursday afternoon at the First Baptist church in Mesquite. Howard Nash was killed by his brother, Alfred Nash, at 4 p. m. last Sunday while engaged in a base ball game at Irving. The shooting was witnessed by a group of several hundred people who were watching the game. Alfred Nash was arrested following the shooting and taken to the Dallas county jail, where he is now confined. It is probably that a self defense plea will be used when he goes to trial. Alfred Nash told officials and newspaper men, "He had threatened to kill me and when he reached toward his belt I was afraid to take any chances and shot him." Family difficulties were recited by Nash as the cause of the shooting. He said his brother came to Corsicana last week and assaulted him with a heavy copper wire club. He quoted his brother as having told him he was going to kill him. He said he also warned him not to come to Mesquite or to Grand Prairie where his mother and father live. Funeral services for Howard Nash were delayed until the arrival of his mother, Mrs. P. C. Nash, who was enroute home from a pilgrimage to France where she visited the graveside of another son, Dan Nash, who was killed while in the service in France during the War. She arrived in Dallas from New York Wednesday morning and immediately came home where the details of the tragedy which occurred during her absence were related to her. She had been notified of the death while in New York. Throughout Wednesday Mrs. Nash did not visit Alfred Nash at the county jail. Sheriff Hal Hood said that he would permit the accused man to attend the funeral of his brother, in view of his own desire to do so and at the request of the parents. A deputy will accompany him to the services at the First Baptist church at Mesquite and to the Mesquite cemetery. The Rev. L. B. Jenkins will officiate at the church services, beginning at 3 p. m. The decease is survived by his wife, three small children, Eunice, Ruby Dell and Howard Nash Jr., by three brothers Alfred Nash, Floyd Nash of Houston and Perry Nash, city marshal of Grand Prairie; by four sisters, Mrs. Lula Richardson, Shamrock; Mrs. Ada Survant, Mesquite; Mrs. Myrtle Bonham, Houston and Miss Winfred Nash, Grand Prairie. Pallbearers will be Fred Blasingame, Fred Kerr, Claude Engleman, Wilma Jenkins, John Bowles and Chas. McCann, all of Dallas county.
Grand Prairie Daily News, August 21, 1931 |
